The Haryana Government has revised water tariff in both the urban and rural areas of the state after a gap of six years.
A decision to hike water tariff was taken in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar lal here.
The State Government has also decided to give a discount of five per cent of the bill amount subject to a maximum of Rs 50, whichever is less, to the consumers for making payments of electricity bill, water and sewerage bills through BHIM App. The discount would be admissible from April 1, 2017 for one year.
In case of domestic metered water supply in the urban areas for consumption up to 20 Kl, Rs four per Kilo litre (Kl) would be charged from the consumers under PHED and Rs five per Kl would be charged from the consumers under Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Municipal Corporations, HSIIDC and Housing Board. However, in case of consumption of more than 20 Kl, Rs eight per Kl would be charged from consumers of PHED and Rs ten per Kl would be charged from the consumers of HUDA, Municipal Corporations, HSIIDC and Housing Board.
In case of domestic connection being misused as commercial, industrial or institutional, Rs 15 per Kl would be charged for metered supply and Rs 1000 per month for unmetered supply.
In case of water supply in institutions, Rs 10 per Kl would be charged for metered connections, but unmetered supply would not be allowed.
Apart from this, in case of sewerage charges, where no sanctioned government water connection is available, in case of domestic connections, Rs 100 per month would be charged and Rs 500 per month would be charged for industrial, commercial and institutional connections.
It has also been decided that for domestic consumers, a one-time non-refundable fee of Rs 1000 per connection would be charged for new water supply connection and Rs 500 per connection for new sewer connection. However, for industrial, commercial and institutional consumers, Rs 5,000 each per connection would be charged for new water supply connection and new sewer connection.
The Chief Minister has said that the State Government is contemplating to entrust the work of collecting water usage charges to village panchayats or zila parishads so as to improve the efficiency of work and also to ensure that the amount so collected by them is utilised for operation and maintenance of water supply schemes where tubewell have already been handed over to village panchayats.